CANCELLED: Symphoniker Hamburg / Nicholas Angelich / Sylvain Cambreling

Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his fifth and last piano concerto during the occupation of Vienna by Napoleon’s grande armée. »I am surrounded by destruction, by a wasteland! Nothing but drums and cannons and human misery of every kind«, the composer noted. Fellow composer Robert Schumann commented on Franz Schubert’s Symphony in C major that »the symphony had an effect on us like none other since those from Beethoven’s pen«. Schumann, who discovered the manuscript ten years after it was written, predicted that the truly horizon-widening work would not be forgotten as it bore within it the »eternal seed of youth«.